be more expensive. >> if you have a unique facility that is designed to provide veteran benefits or some other public service, it makes it tougher for the government to move, right? >> that is correct. >> i yield back. if i could, i would ask unanimous consent in a press release from gsa dated december 4 -- >> without objection, so ordered. >> and from the biden-harris white house? >> without objection, so ordered. i now recognize mr. timmons from south carolina for five minutes. >> thank you. we are here because this country faces an existential threat, $36 trillion in debt, 1.8 trillion dollar annual deficit. we are trying to find comments and solutions to address unused

space and how we can be more efficient with taxpayer dollars in that regard. this is really a whole of government approach. we have to write size our fiscal ship in order to have country long-term. i guess this is one small part of that endeavor. it really is just common sense. i'm going to tell you story about my time in office. i got elected seven years ago. my predecessor had two offices. they were spread out in my district. they were some of -- you can finish watching this on our website c-span.org. i've now to remarks from president trump. pres. trump: very little inflation. very little inflation. energy costs are down. interest rates are probably down. they scatter but they are probably down. prescription drug prices are even to down, doing very well. it is been amazing.

we had a big day yesterday. difficulty, but we -- and history, it was the biggest day in history, the markets. we are very happy with the way the country is running. we are trying to get the world to treat us fairly. this is something that should have been done 25 years ago and it wasn't. it should have been done 40 years ago and it wasn't. no president was willing to take it up. you had to. it is not sustainable. it wasn't sustainable. as you know, without a lot of money being added, this is a lot of money we could add post of the country is making approximately $2 billion a day. when you think of it, we have never done that before. the number is probably $3.5 billion a day.

that makes us a very strong country. we have scott here and howard and some of the people that are working on deals. the biggest problem they have is they don't have enough time in the day. everybody wants to come and make a deal. we are working with a lot of different countries. it is all going to work out very well. i think it is going to work out very well. we are in great shape. there is no inflation, very little inflation. went four years without inflation and tariffs, i took in hundreds of billions of dollars from china and others. taxes in china. but we took in hundreds of billions of dollars a year from china and we had no inflation, essentially. we think we are in very good shape. we think we are doing very well. again, there will be a transition cost and transition problems but in the end, it is going to be a beautiful thing. we are doing what we should have done many years ago.

we let it get out of control. we allowed some countries to get very big and very rich at our expense. can't let that happen. it is not a sustainable formula. i wanted to thank everybody at the table. maybe i will go around and ask some of you a little short couple of answers. pete just got back from panama. he has been all over the place. want to give us a little report on that? and whatever else you might have to say. everyone at this table is doing an incredible job, by the way. incredible. the relationships, it is like they are friends. relationships are very strong. really good, really strong. these meetings are very good. i don't believe there is any other president that allowed the press to come into my meeting such -- these are very sacred meetings. these are very private meetings.

but we have nothing to hide. i think it is good. i think it is good. oh word you'd like to use jeff, transparent. we want to be transparent. we will do that by starting with pete. go ahead. >> mr. president, we just got back from panama last night. we are at the panama canal with commander ships come f-18's, troops inside of a couple of historic deals. one which is if the panama canal authority, a framework for u.s. vessels, first and free in a memorandum of understanding with their security minister for the presence of u.s. troops for an old u.s. as well as a naval station in airbase shortly with panama to secure the panama canal from chinese influence. that is something you said we are taking back the canal. china has had too much influence. obama and others let them creep in. we, along with panama, or

pushing them out, sir. president merlino sins his regards, -- malino, sends his regards. they want the communist chinese out. with our troops there partnering with air forces was that we have a chance to push them -- pres. trump: we have moved a lot of trips to panama. build up some areas we used to have. we did not have any longer but we have them now. in very good control. >> yes, sir. pres. trump: thank you. howard? >> we have so many countries to talk to. it is incredible. i'm not sure we could ever have enough time in the day to talk to all of these countries as they want to talk now. they have come with offers they never, ever would have come with but for the moves that the

president has made demanding that people treat united states with respect. i think you're going to see deals one after another. very excited within a week and a half, we're going to start with the gold card and the trump card. it is coming out and we are very excited about that done that is coming soon. very excited. pres. trump: thank you very much. good job. >> on a couple of fronts, we have been addressing the issue of anti-semitism on campuses. there has been some grant funding and contract funding we have reviewed. some canceled and some we have put on hold waiting for that. while we are doing an investigation. on the other side, my responsibilities in having education come back to the states, we are talking with governors. all 50 commissioners of education around the country. because we also want to provide

them with tools and best practices as education does move back to the states. making great progress, great response from the states. very positive. pres. trump: what about colleges ? holding back $400 million from colombia come and can you imagine the amount we pay harvard? we are trying to figure that out. then they hire de blasio come the worst mayor in the history of new york, and they hire the women from chicago who is a disaster, total disaster. and they pay massive salaries and their supposed to be teaching new government. that is not harvard the way it used to be. you have anything to say about that? dollars your holding back from what if you universities? that were not behaving? >> princeton, cornell, others coming in. actually getting calls now from the presidents of universities who really do want to come in

and sit down and have discussions. we are investigating them. in the meantime, we are holding back the grant, the fund money. pres. trump: thank you. >> very thankful for the house voting for the president's budget resolution along with the senate bill. made a ton of progress this week in working with members to ensure that the desire for flexibility in the senate was not misconstrued as a desire not to slow spending reforms. we are thankful for that. now we can get after writing that bill, getting the president as big a package of his agenda to his desk. very good week. pres. trump: just got the house vote. now we are well on our way to getting come as we call it, the great big beautiful bill. it is a beauty. there's never been a bill like this one. try to get it all in one beautiful bill. tax cuts, regulation cuts, and many other things.

the border. a lot of money for the border. doing a fantastic job. but we just got a report that, as you know, you knew before us, we suppress we got the vote? we are happy to get the vote. -- were you surprised we got to about? we are happy to get the vote. >> mr. president, last year the chinese received 1700 orders for new ships, american shipyards received five. under your leadership, revitalize and make shipbuilding and maritime great again. these blue-collar jobs. these are the cranes, ports, opportunity zones that drive that investment back in. under that executive order and also want to streamline for military sales, people who want to buy our equipment and acquisition reform all under your leadership. pres. trump: we are going to be rebuilding our ship building

business will stop we may order -- we would have to go to congress for this, but we may by some ships from other countries that we are close to and do great jobs. we are going to start the process of rebuilding will stop we don't essentially build ships anymore, which is ridiculous. it will be a very big business for us. in the meantime, we have countries that do very well at building ships and we will be dealing with those countries. and we may be ordering top-of-the-line ships from those countries. within a fairly short period of time, we will be building our own ships. probably have to go to congress for that. we are not going to have a problem. susie, thank you for the job you've done. go ahead. >> i just want to make sure you know that this cabinet uniquely collaborates and cooperates and works together to accomplish all

that you have asked them to do. i think they deserve a lot of credit for that. pres. trump: that is true. doing a great job. chief of staff. doing a great job. go ahead. >> the biden epi was strangling the economy. the trump epa understands it is not a binary choice. we can protect the environment and grow the economy. i'm working with doge and elon musk, now canceled $22 billion worth of grants. we have launched what is the largest direct military action in the history of the country. just in one agency. that is how much the biden epa left us. it is going to end up reducing the cost of living, create jobs, make it easier to purchase a car, easier to heat your home. we are proud of this effort. the effort we have is fulfilling the mandate you earn from the american public. clean air, water, permitting

reform from advancing cooperative federalism, making america the ai capital of the world, bringing back american auto jobs. when you called me that day asking for me to take this position, i was honored. you are very specific in -- and clear what you wanted us to accomplish. we understand our mission. at the trump epa, we're going to make you proud. pres. trump: you are doing a great job. you have a lot of applications for the power plants. they will be right next to each other. it is tired of be subject to being attacked whether by rain or bombs or anything else. we are letting people build their own power plants. a lot of them are being built with the ai and beyond the ai, trips -- chips.

we will get it done quickly and approved quickly as part of a plan. being their own power company. they could not believe it when i told them. we will get the approvals very fast as part of the regular plan. you will build electric producing plants and is very exciting. they are able to do it very quickly and very well. you made it possible. thank you. you have a lot of applications for some of the biggest plants that have ever been built in the world. these are serious plants. >> approved. approved. >> working with secretary wright, we will make you proud. >> first mr. president, it is brooke's birthday today. happy birthday. i want to thank you for the shipbuilding. to build ships you need mariners

to sail those ships. i was at the marine academy. we have some of the greatest young men and women who are learning to rebuild and fix the engines on the ships and how to sail ships. over the past decades this academy has been a little bit dilapidated. we have to invest in sailors. i appreciate you taking the initiative. to be a global powder -- a global power, we have to build ships and sail ships. support the military. thank you for that. the last administration announced 3200 projects, roads and bridges. most of them are good. they announced it and did not sign a grant agreement so the money does not go out the door to build the infrastructure. it is fun to do an announcement. it is harder to put together the

agreements. we are doing the work right now at dot to get the agreements done and build projects. most of them are good. they put in all of this green and social justice requirements on roads and bridges. we are pulling that out and putting the money toward infrastructure, not the social movement from the last administration. pres. trump: green papier-mache. [laughter] thanks. great job. >> first, we are more than friends. we have all become family. what you have assembled in your vision is a turning point and inflection point in american history. just being part of that is the greatest honor. thank you for that. again, the relationships here and the respect we have for each other as a reflection of you and your leadership. this second thing i want to say

is that on behalf of the farmers and ranchers, food security is national security. we have to be able to feed ourselves. your idea of using tariffs along with de-regulation and tax cuts to ensure that we are putting forward and putting america first, no one understands that better than our farmers and ranchers. emerging from four years of biden with a 30% increase for farmers and ranchers and almost $50 billion trade deficit. when we left the first time, it was zero. meaning that they are hurting. the period of uncertainty we are in, they know that your vision will move us into an age of prosperity for all americans but for my people, the farmers and ranchers, unlike any they have ever seen before and they are really excited and so grateful for your leadership. but also, you have never failed to say that you have the backs

of our farmers and ranchers since the first phone call that i had after i was voted with the senate. that message resonates with almost 85% supporting you in the last election. they are with you. the biggest budget driver at the department of agriculture is not farming and ranching or agriculture. it is foodstamps. as we emerge and embark secretary kennedy and i on your vision of making america healthy again, a massive part of that is realigning and reworking our food stamp program so that it better serves those who need it. to the point of getting the transgender d.e.i. green new deal out of the usda and realigning is really. substantive thank you. pres. trump: is it a 100% effort you say? >> 99.9%. pres. trump: a much different military than when i was there.

and eggs are down? >> easter is the super bowl for eggs. there may be a fluctuation but we feel really good about it. thank you. >> i want to echo what howard said. we have over 75 countries that want to comment so it would be treasury, commerce, ustr and we are putting a process in place. you will be part of the negotiations too. i have had these countries called me and secretary bessent, we are happy you will be negotiating. trump is going to be involved too. [laughter] bring your best deal on the budget. it is moving quickly in the house and the senate thanks to your leadership. we will also have debt ceiling there so we will get an increase in the debt ceiling. that will be done and tested --

done and dusted for two years. we won't have to worry about that. i gave a speech yesterday at 1400 small and community bankers and they were so happy to hear from your administration and i told them wall street has done very great for the past two years and it can continue doing great but it is main street's turn now. those with an emphasis on your mainstream agenda bringing back jobs which will empower smaller communities. the bond auction went very well yesterday. we had a lot of foreigners show up, showing that the u.s. is still the best place to invest. the inflation report as you said was quite good. energy prices are down more than

20% since january 20. pres. trump: good numbers. >> great numbers. >> mr. president we have had some great wins in the last few days. you were overwhelmingly elected by the biggest majority. americans want you to be president because of your agenda. the courts are ruling that you have the authority to determine how the money of this country will be spent. that is what the american citizens wanted and that is what they are getting. an example of that friday was the department of education. you can determine how the money will be spent. no more d.e.i. that impacts every agency across the board. on the civil side, nlrb, we had a big win there. opm, a big win. 16,000 workers there. on the criminal side, the alien enemies act, we are winning there.

we are directed to me was to keep america safe and that is what we are doing. whether it is the alien enemies, all of these gangs, they are enemies of our countries. they are terrorists with organized crime have come here. they are extremely organized and they are creating terror and no more under your directive and that has stopped. yesterday in south florida charged 11 defendants with half $1 billion of pure cocaine coming into our country to kill our kids. they were caught. they will be prosecuted. these gang members are going back to where they came from, or they are going to a prison in el salvador at your directive. you gave us a directive to prosecute people who are going after tesla to the fullest extent of the law. some of the greatest police work i have seen. we made four arrests. there will be no negotiations. they are looking at 20 years in prison. with the next 24 hours you will be seeing another huge arrest on

a tesla dealership resident and that person will be looking at at least 20 years in prison with no negotiations. pres. trump: that's great. that will stop it. doing a great job. >> mr. president, accountability matters. that is what we are recognizing. with our partners at the department of leader -- department of labor for government efficiency we realized there is $4.4 billion in covid funds that were not used. out of that week gave $1.4 billion back to the state treasury, essentially to the american people. we will put the rest of those billions of dollars back. last night unemployment insurance fraud, that needs to be held for the american people. we need it for who deserves it.

the numbers we saw last night exposed by our partners at doge and the department of labor. 22020 400 million dollars of payments have gone out. you hear these numbers, in the united states we have over 25,000 people who are over 115 years old who are connecting -- collecting $59 million that we have sent out to people. talk about fraudulent behavior. 28,000 people between one and five years old have collected fraudulent payments at the tone of $254 million. 10,000 people who have not been born yet, 15 years into the future, $69 million and they have not been born yet. in one case, they will be born 129 years from now. the united states government sent them $41,000.

under the department of labor those other things we are uncovering. i could not be more honored that we are bringing back american dollars will be returning them to the united states treasury. jobs numbers. last friday 228,000 new jobs were reported for the american people. that is my primary job under your leadership. we have kicked off the america at work tour and we will be visiting all 50 states and i will be working with my colleagues to do just that. thank you mr. president. we will grow this economy. we will keep our focus on the american worker. pres. trump: those numbers were really bad. over 115 years old. you mentioned the oldest person in our country is 114. that's pretty good. >> one was living in pennsylvania. there are more of them that are 115 or older.

pres. trump: older than the oldest person? what are we doing about that? how do we get that money back? >> we are working to do further investigation. at the house and senate we had a five year session. we have an extension on that another five years. in my opinion we should never have a statute of limitations to return american dollars back to the treasury when there is fraud. but we will continue to work hard to return those dollars back to the treasury. thank you. >> mr. president, thank you for your leadership at the border for the second month in a row, you have broken the record in the history of the nation for the lowest number of encounters at the border, which is remarkable. you have said that america's laws matter and that they will be enforced and we are hard at work to get people to go back home who are here illegally. the alien registration act has

been in place long enough that those individuals here illegally if they have not registered, they can be charged criminally and face fines up to $1000 per day and face deportation if they don't go home and they will never get the chance to come back to america. we are encouraging people to use the app to register and we are working on the resources and funding to get them a plane ticket to send them home. el salvador, colombia and mexico and others are thinking of setting up programs to support these individuals when they get back to their countries. so that when they get there they will have housing and food assistance. making sure these folks have the opportunity to go home so they can get the chance to come back to america. pres. trump: it is a very big self-the port operation we are starting -- self-deport operation. >> they need to go home because

they are here breaking our laws. i have been working with the governor's a lot lately on several different issues. one of them has been on fema for recommendations on how to do exactly what you directed us to do. also i sent a letter will be communicated with them that they need to be setting up a scif. some of them don't have secure facilities. one of the jobs is to give communication down to states, cities and communities. recommending they get a scif and have secure columns -- secure coms at all times so that they can have national security conversations and someone at their office designated to have national security conversations. they don't necessarily have someone designated when it comes to a national security issue that we may need to communicate with them on. the american people need to know that real id will be required to

travel on may seventh. those governors have been notified to communicate that at home. we don't want anyone to be delayed and not be able to travel when they get to the airport. this will also help us bring integrity back to all of our ids and how they are used for issuing drivers licenses and governors know how i feel about making sure their drivers licensing system has integrity because a lot of people use their drivers license to vote. the backbone of our country and the foundation's election integrity. we are getting all of those directives to our governors so they can lean on it as well. pres. trump: and work with people so that they go out in a nice way back to their country, we will work with them right from the beginning trying to get them back in legally, is that right? so it gives them real incentive. otherwise, they will never come back. we will also work with farmers and if they have strong

recommendations for their farms for certain people, we will let them stay for a while and work with the farmers and come back and go through a legal process. we have to take care of our farmers and hotels and various places where they need the people. we will be working with you very carefully on that. we will have a letter concerning certain people saying that they are great, they are working hard. we will slow it down a little bit for them. then we will ultimately bring them back. they can go out and then come back as legal workers. ok? i think it is very important to. thank you very much. great job. you are up every night until 3:00 in the morning. [laughter] thank you very much. >> it is what i like to do for fun. you have been keeping us busy. last week you started the

reordering of international trade, something that has not happened for eight years. something that should've happened decades ago. you have known that for a long time. that's why you have us working on this. you came into an emergency situation where biden left us with a $1.2 trillion trade deficit, the largest of any country in human history. you declared an emergency and took action. pres. trump: he did say the largest in history, right? there has never been anything like what he left us. he left us a mess. the whole administration was a mess. go ahead. >> you declared an emergency, imposed a trade action. now you have a tariff on the world that promotes u.s. manufacturing and protects workers. you've also give a room for negotiation during this time so we can open export markets for farmers and other producers and american workers. this is why the unions vote for you, the workers vote for you and why families want you to be president because you are standing up for american

workers. we have had countries come in over the past couple of weeks that represent more than half of global domestic gdp. more than half. that is who is coming in to talk to you and your advisors about how to have reciprocal trade and fair trade. pres. trump: thank you very much. great job. >> thanks to your fantastic leadership, this amazing cabinet and the doge team, we anticipate savings in fy 26 by $150 billion. some of it is just absurd. people getting unemployment insurance who have not been born yet. come on. that is just crazy. some of these things, if you ask me, how will you find waste and fraud in the government. actually, just go in any direction.

that's how you find it. it is very common. it is a target-rich environment. [laughter] then we are doing a lot of good with collaboration with the cabinet to achieve these savings and it will result in better services for the american people who will be spending their tax dollars in a way that is sensible and fair and good. pres. trump: you people are fantastic. hopefully they stay around for the long haul. i would like to keep as many as i can. they are great, sharp and smart at finding things people would not have thought of. very computer savvy. >> we are going to get the trump gold card operational hopefully in the next week or so. pres. trump: a pathway to citizenship, into the united states. a big deal. thank you very much.

great job. >> thanks to your leadership and setting the mandate of transparency and accountability across the u.s. government, i am bringing that transparency and accountability to the intelligence community first to make sure that you and your cabinet have that real-time relevant apolitical objective intelligence to best inform whether it is negotiations for peace, negotiations around tariffs, for the great work that you are leading around the cabinet today. secondly working with homeland security and the fbi to increase our information sharing to achieve your goal of countering the narcotic trafficking and our ability to go after cartels now designated as foreign terrorists. i met with the national sheriffs association this week. being able to work to make sure that the info they are getting on the ground and law enforcement is getting on the ground is being fed back up

through to our national counterterrorism center and that we have all the federal agencies of state and local law enforcement on the same page as we are working to make our country safe again. lastly as you know the classification and rooting out weaponization, politicization of the intelligence community is a huge priority. you know more than anyone else the negative consequences of that. i've got a long list of things that we are investigating. we have the best of the best going after this. election integrity being one of them. we have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers for a very long time and vulnerable to exploitation to manipulate the results of votes being cast which further drives forward your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so voters can have faith in the integrity of our elections. lastly, we have been scanning. i have got 100 people working

around the clock to scan the paper around senator robert f. kennedy, jr. assassination as well as martin luther king jr.'s assassination. these have been sitting in storage for decades. they have never been seen before. we will have those ready to release in the next few days. pres. trump: that's great. bobby, how do you feel about that? it is hitting close to home, isn't it? you are thinking about bobby when that statement is made. let bobby see some of this because it is very personal stuff. >> i have asked him. his response is pointed out. the world needs to know the truth. pres. trump: anything that has not been out can go to your office. >> everything we have within our

possession is either online or it is physically at the national archives and records agency. we also have hunters going out and looking in the store were stalkers that fbi and cia and other agencies specifically to find if there is anything else that has not been reported. we are actively trying to search out the truth. pres. trump: we want to get it all out. 100%. thank you very much. >> mr. president, on behalf of america's manufacturers i want to thank you for standing up to the chinese communist party and fighting for our workers and for those who make things in america. i am on a made in america manufacturing tour and people are grateful for a president who is not just fighting on the tariffs front but to get inflation down, create jobs. after biden destroyed 110

manufacturing jobs, you have already brought back thousands of manufacturing jobs. the american workers grateful. main street is grateful for you. at the agency level we are making sure manufacturers have access to the capital we need that we cannot do that if we are not fighting fraud. we have modified our loan application staff citizenship verification to make sure we have birthdays, common sense principles around lending that the biden administration had waived. they waived $450 million in fees. we are restoring that. the american taxpayer as tax day approaches april 15 need to know that this administration, thank you elon musk and doge for fighting for the american taxpayer to make sure that their dollars are well spent, that they have a return on investment in this country and that we are fighting for them just as you are every single day. thank you mr. president. pres. trump: thank you very much. >> mr. president, we are working

at hhs to advance your agenda to make america healthy again. i am working with lee zeldin to reassess the forward rules based on the august release of a new program of science that shows direct correlation between exposures of fluoride and iq loss particularly in children. lee and i were in utah to announce that utah became the first state in the country to ban fluoride. i am working with brooke on governors now in 24 states who are advancing legislation to get soda pops off of the food stamp program. we have launched operations to get the chemicals out of baby formula.

we are working with governors across the country to get good food into the rooms and to get rid of food chemical dyes and other bad chemicals in our food. we have shown that this directly affects academic performance, violence in schools and mental health and physical health. we are working with governors across the country to get legislation to restrict the use of cell phones in schools which dramatically impacts academic performance. today we announced that dramatic reduction in animal testing at nih and the fda. we will switch over to ai which we found is much more precise in identifying the impacts of toxics in various products. we are working with a long who

has done an incredible job -- we are working with elon who has done an incredible job to eliminate the redundancies and recalibrate our trajectory to your agenda of making america healthy again. finally, the cdc has done an amazing job of getting the measles outbreak under control. we have about 680 cases in 22 states compared to the same outbreak in europe which is 127 thousand cases and 37 deaths. our numbers in this country have plateaued. i want to thank the cdc for that. we are trying to refocus. we have had free measles tests in this country over 20 years. we are trying to refocus the press to get them to pay attention to the chronic disease

pandemic as you have asked us to. we have 38% of american youth prediabetic. this was unknown 30 years ago. every child that becomes diabetic, there should be a headline about them. 100 million adults who are prediabetic or diabetic. we have now the autism rates have gone from most recent numbers we think will be about one in 31 so they are going up again. from one in 10,000 when i was a kid. we are going at your direction, we will know by september when we launch a massive testing and research effort that is going to involve hundreds of scientists from around the world. we will know what has caused the autism epidemic and be able to eliminate. pres. trump: it was one in

10,000 children who had autism and now it is one in 31. not 31,000. 31. that is a horrible statistic. there has to be something artificial out there that is doing this. you think you have a good idea? >> we will know by september. pres. trump: there will be no bigger news conference than that if you can come up with that answer. where you stop taking something, stop eating something, or maybe it is a shot. but something is causing it. it cannot be from 10,000. can you imagine that? that is a big number. thank you very much. you are doing great. thank you, bob. >> one of your primary goals is to make sure we unleash american energy.

that would make it more affordable for all americans. energy is not just an industry. it is the foundation of every other industry, whether it is food, manufacturing, clothing, transportation. and then also, when we have got the ability to be energy dominant, we have the opportunity to sell energy to our friends and allies, versus buying it from our adversaries. our adversaries are funding terrorism against our allies. by the oil and gas sales. it is a swiss cheese set of sanctions. over half the people at this table are really engaged, whether it is negotiations with other countries, putting sanctions in place that actually work, cutting deregulation, working on biofuels, infrastructure and transportation -- there are a range of things being tackled.

the outcome is that the biden administration was restricting supply. you are increasing supply. we have huge opportunity to do this. just an interior alone, there are 500 million acres of surface, and 2.5 billion acres of offshore. the biden administration was trying to restrict this so you could not get a timber police. you could not cut a tree. you could not develop oil and gas. you could not develop what we need for our technology, for our defense industries and things that would help us win the arms race against china. with your executive orders on tuesday, a historic day. you ended the war on beautiful clean coal. china gets 60% of their electricity from coal.

they have opened 94 gigawatts of coal in the last year as part of the arms race. that is enough for 94 danvers. it is unheard of. we have an opportunity under your leadership to come back to the gulf of america with police sale scheduled for later this year. now, the gulf of america is open for business again. there is as much as 7 billion barrels of oil accessible now. on the cold front, the estimate is the financial value of the coal is $8 trillion. that is now being put back again. in alaska, with separate executive orders, unleashing alaska energy between the north slope, the strategic patrol --

those are all open for business again. all of this is leading to the investment in america. smart money is coming to the u.s. trillions of dollars of investment are coming up to the door because they know if they do investment here, it will advance. thank you for your leadership. pres. trump: thank you. marco? sec. rubio: mr. president, one of the porton -- important things in the presidency is reordering the world in a proper way. for more than 35 years, multiple administrations have allowed the chinese to de-industrialize this country, to take away factories. what you are doing now is a great service to our country. i want to congratulate the team that is working on it. it is extraordinary, as you see.

wanting to join something -- basically, we lived in a world where chinese companies can do whatever they want in america. our companies cannot do anything over there unless they allow all sorts of stuff. all of that has dramatic implications on our security, so thank you. importantly, thanks to you, it is going to happen on saturday for the first time in a long time will be direct talks with a top letter -- top-level leader in iran. and i think that is what led to this meeting. we are hopeful about that. we are receiving historic collaborations with countries all over the world. every country in the world. we have countries that refuse to do it. all of them are doing it. the ones that are not are paying the price. we also have other countries

that are willing to take very dangerous criminals. they have been a good friend to the united states in that regard. kristi knows this from the work they are doing. one last point i want to make -- this was under your executive order. when you come as a student, we expect you to go to class and get a degree. if you come and vandalize a library, take over a campus, we are going to get rid of you. and we will continue to do it. when we identify individuals like this, we will take away your student visa. it is like me inviting you to my home. if you come into my home and put all kinds of things on my couch, i kick you out of my house. that is what we are doing, thanks to the president. an important development -- we are very excited. the university of florida is now

a national champion and we hope you will host them soon. go gators. pres. trump: you are doing a great job. i appreciate it. any questions? >> give us a sense of the next steps with china. pres. trump: i have not seen anything because i have been here for two and a half hours. scott, do you want to have something? sec. bessent: it is not a bad ratio. we are up 10, down 20. i think that we have talked it out as we go through the queue. with these countries that are going to bring us their best offers -- there is great certainty over the next 90 days on tariffs. we have good inflation numbers today.

i do not see anything unusual. pres. trump: we will see what happens with china, whether we will be able to work a deal. they have taken advantage of our country for a long time. how people stood for it, sitting in my position, is really unbelievable. we are talking about many presidents. they did. we are putting it back in shape. we are resetting the table. i'm sure we will be able to get along very well. in a true sense, he has been a friend of mine for a long time. i think it will end up working out. it will be something that is good for both countries. >> china retaliated today by

reducing the number of american films that can be shown. what is your reaction? pres. trump: i think i have heard of worse things. [laughter] yes. >> also on china, the ukrainians said they have found chinese soldiers fighting for the russians in ukraine. can you verify this? if so, how would we combat that? pres. trump: we will look into that. 2500 and even more than that, young people a week, russian and ukrainian. they are not american, but they are people. and i think we are making progress. i appreciate the ballerina who was released at the request of a good friend of all of ours, actually.

denny white called me. there is a relationship of one of the fighters. and dana is an incredible guy. we spoke about it. they made a deal. they released her. she is now out. we will make a deal soon with russia and ukraine to stop the fighting. it would never have happened if i were president, but it did happen. i think we are going to get it. we have to move it faster. we are making progress. there are 59 hostages, but only 24 of them are living. that is the way it has been presented to me by the mothers of some of the dead. the mothers and fathers of some

of the dead hostages. the bodies of their baby, as they say. their baby. young boys. they want them back. it is amazing. when i met the hostages two weeks ago here, i could not believe it. they said, yeah, there is 59. 24 art living. if you are a parent, you do consider that the remainder who are dead -- the remainder that are dead, they want them back just as much as they would want them back if they were alive. it is really pretty amazing. pretty sad. so we are getting close to getting them back. a lot of people are very grateful. some came back in pretty bad shape. some came back. they are ok.

if you sit down and talk to them, as i have come up what they went through is incredible, but we are making progress. we are dealing with israel. we are dealing with thomas. and it is a nasty group. >> how close are we to the first country coming to actually make a deal with the united states over tariffs, months? pres. trump: i think it is very close. we don't want a deal that is going to be a bad deal. i could make every deal in one day, if i wanted to. all in one day. i could just say, here is what we will do. what the people before god, mostly just got. and some of the other people that work with us on the negotiations. we have a lot of law firms that are paying a lot of money in the form of legal fees. we would probably use those firms, if we can -- i think we can -- they are making a

contribution to their country. the biggest firms. and really the most prestigious. we may be using those to help you guys out, because you do not -- you said -- he is working on trade, working on criminal stuff. so we will find out if we can do that. we have a lot where they paid 100 million dollars a firm on average. the final five are at 125 million. i have a lot of legal fees. we may as well use them. hopefully i will not need that many, but who knows, after it ends. but if i do, it is not going to be very pleasant. i think we will be trying to use these very prestigious firms to help us out.

but we want to make a lot of deals that are proper. we want to make deals. we want to make them. >> at the end of the emergency after the 90 days, will you put those higher tariffs in place? pres. trump: that is what will happen if we can't make the deal we want to make or we have to make or that is good for both parties. it has got to be good for both parties. and then we will go back to where we were. >> could you extend the pause? pres. trump: we will have to see what happens. >> you were considering some extensions for companies. and then the idea that it could be substantially lower -- is it the same math? pres. trump: am not considering now for any country or company -- but it is possible that i would. but we do not have that situation right now. people understand where we are,

what we are going to do. but it could happen. there is more flex ability. >> what would you use the money for from tariffs? pres. trump: paying down national debt, reducing taxes, helping christie with the border and all of the other things. we could build hundreds of miles of wall, as people now understand. but we are going to be fit up and add more. the numbers are incredible. we have great numbers. but these numbers are topping my last administration. kristi and tom homan did an amazing job. used to be hundred of thousands of people standing at the border

in tijuana, mexico. this weekend, you had none of that. you had a man sweeping this massive piece of concrete which is the area which is massive. during the biden administration, you could not see a piece of concrete, there were so many people. helicopter shots, you could not see. now, this weekend, you had nobody there but a man with a broom, cleaning it up. pretty amazing. but it will be used for that. it will be used for a lot of things. it will be used by the department of justice, who are doing a great job. . it will be used for a lot of different things. it is a baseline. it depends on what they are adding. some countries, we have massive

deficits. others, it is not that way. they are all different. every country is different. certain advantages that others do not have. china has a surplus of a trillion dollars. the numbers are crazy. and others have basically no surpluses. we have some that are pretty even. but there are other ways that we just want to get that taken care of. so everyone is a little bit different. >> will you trade with the e.u. as one block or individual nations? pres. trump: we are looking at it as one block. they have been very tough. they were very smart. they were ready to announce retaliation. and then they heard about what we did with respect to china and others, but china. and they said, you know?

we are going to hold back. i thought they were very smart. the e.u. is very smart. but they really have taken advantage of the united states. they were formed for the purpose of taking advantage of the united states. i don't blame them and i don't blame china. i don't blame anybody. i blame the people that were sitting at the desk in that other beautiful oval office for allowing it to happen. many presidents have. they should never have allowed it to happen. i'm doing something a lot of them would not want to do. but i do those things and we are going to make this country great again. we were taken advantage of by almost everybody. i said back in the last administration -- i would read some of these documents that were signed, deals, and i would say, who would do it like this? i would look at deals where it is so one-sided.

we have a deal with japan. we get along great with japan. the prime minister was fantastic. as you know, abe was great, shins oh, a great friend of mine, no longer with us. we defend them, but they don't have to defend us. that does not sound good. we have a deal, a defense deal. we pay hundreds of billions of dollars to defend them. but -- in other words, we pay all the money. they don't pay anything. but if we are ever attacked, they don't have to do a thing to protect us. i said, well, that sounds like a wonderful deal. that is just one out of thousands. i just wonder who did this. and it is people that either hate our country, or did not care, the expression that you use. i think a lot of them did not

care. it is just hard to believe how bad they were. that is a little bit of a defensive deal. we are not talking about trade deals. the same thing. they are so bad. you would say, how come? even when i would renegotiate, they give me everything i asked for. i said, why didn't somebody ask for that? and when they were negotiating, he did not care, or they did not ask, or they were very stupid. or they hate our country. >> regarding japan, can you clarify the deal for u.s. steel? pres. trump: u.s. steel is going to do very well now because of tariffs. i don't know why they would need a deal. the only thing is u.s. steel, if you go back 80 or 90 years, that was a behemoth. it was our biggest, most -- we would have been very proud of

it. today, we have different types of companies that are big -- google. it is not the same as u.s. steel. and i got to like the people that run it. they are capable people. and they liked me so much in the first administration, but they like me a lot now. i don't know what happened. i think they would be the first to admit -- when you look at some of the steel factories from 90 years ago, it was a different kind of a country. they were miles long. today, you see emptiness. those will be filled up soon. tariffs -- it was a different kind of a thing. but if i did not do that in my first term, if i did not put tariffs on, we wouldn't not have it, because china and others were dumping steel, billions of dollars of steel. we would not have one steel plant open. and now we have a steel industry

that is doing well. soon it is going to be really thriving. those factories are going to be filled up. more importantly, there will be new ones. so many other companies call me, big steel companies, about building massive new steel plants. likewise, car companies. we have many car companies. i like mexico. by the way, i think the new president is a terrific person and a fantastic woman. we have had many conversations. she is a very elegant -- just a fantastic person. she has been very nice. i am not looking to hurt them. but we have three car plants that were under construction in mexico. they stopped constructing. see, we should have never let this happen. whoever it was that was present at the time in the u.s. --

90,000 plants and factories since nafta. 90,000. it is not believable. how about that? you are member that world of factories and plants? -- you remember that world of factories and plants? we are going to bring them all back. that period of time is not so long ago. i said the other day, if you had a map on a big wall like this, and you had pins, 90,000 of them -- i don't think he would have enough room in the map to put the pins. 90,000 factories that we lost since nafta. and about 6 million jobs, and probably a lot more than that, but they say 6 million jobs. i think we are going to bring back more than all of it. we are going to be better and stronger than ever before. if a president, when they were

leaving, said, you can leave, but if you are going to build a factory someplace else and you think you are going to sell your car or any product you make, your pharmaceuticals -- all they had to do is say this, and they would not have left. i said it the other day. i said it with respect to -- i made a speech a year ago and told them, if i win, i'm going to charge a big tariff at the border, and people were thinking about building in mexico. i said, we are going to have a big tariff. ifuild car, you are going to have to pay 25% more, the tariff at the border. they would have never left. if a president said, if you leave this country, if you leave michigan, if you leave detroit, if you leave -- anybody, any of our states. to me, they are all the same.

i love them all. i love them all and i probably won them all. they say i won most of them, but i think -- all you had to say if you are the president, if you leave, if you think you are going to fire all those workers and leave everything behind, and you are going to build in another country, you are going to pay 50% or 100% tariff. and all you have got to say, very simply, all you have to do is say it verbally, if you leave, you have to pay a 100% tariff. therefore, don't leave. they would never have left. they left 90,000 plants. you cannot envision it. just getting back -- you know i am the great weaver of all time. i go on tangents, and anybody can do that.

but u.s. steel is a big name in this country. we have a lot of big names, but not too many. steel, the big names in history. normally, i would not mind so much. i would be thrilled. but for a foreign country -- and we love japan. but for a foreign country to buy that cherished u.s. steel brand, it is hard for me to do. somebody else may want it. the company, nippon, that is involved, is a big, powerful company and would do a good job. but why can't they build a plant themselves? you know i rejected the deal. now they are coming back as an investor and i feel better about that.

i know the thinking. maybe someday else is sitting in that chair and they will know what kind of investment it is. we are dealing with very smart people throughout the world and great geniuses, actually. look what they have done to our country. and i do not blame china. i don't blame anybody. if i were in that position, i would have great respect. i have great respect for the people. they ripped off the united states. all we needed was to have a president who knew what the hell was going on, and none of those companies would have left, none of them. that is a little lesson in basic business, and it is really basic business. it is not complicated business. it is very basic business. we would have every one of those car plants just the way they were 30 years ago. none of them would have left. now, they are coming back. >> can you confirm that $400

million was at stake? pres. trump: i think it is terrible. i just heard it from lori. i appreciate it. and you heard it from elon's people, right? elon has done a fantastic job. he is sitting here, and i don't care. i don't need elon for anything other than i happen to like him, what i'm telling you this guy did a fantastic job. i don't need his car. i actually want one. they said, did they give you a bargain? i said, no, give me tom price. i paid a lot of money for that car. he makes a great car. they let the people at the office drive around. natalie, chamberlin -- they are all driving around in the most beautiful car. it is gorgeous. but i did that as a sign -- just a show of support. just a show of support.

because, you know, he has done a fantastic job. and he has not been treated properly. he has not been treated properly. >> can you tell us about your communications with china regarding the tariffs? pres. trump: i want to say that i think it is going to work out, hopefully well. it is hard to get over, if you are me, the -- what they have done to our country. they have destroyed our economic base, to a large extent. we were very vibrant, and we are going to get it back. i'm making $2 billion a day now. and during biden, we were losing $3 billion a day. biden was a disaster. he was the worst president in the history of our country. to me, worse than that -- the

money you can make with a guy in this position -- worse than that is what they did on the border, by allowing the jails of the world -- not south america, all over the world -- to be opened up so that we take everybody from africa, asia, south america, europe, the bad ones -- they open up their jails and they dump them in the united states. so now this beautiful young woman who -- she loves what she does. i think she loves what she does because she is a patriot. she hates to see it, like tom and all the people. for us to spend hundreds of billions of dollars -- i don't know. they either hated america or -- who would do this? who would want millions of people to pour through an open border, no matter who they are, just walk right through? and half of them, whether you like it or not -- you can look at them and say they are not going to help us.

these are rough people. but they empty out their jails and the empty out their mental institutions and insane asylums, and they let them into the united states of america. and inflation we can fix. in all of the other things we can fix. we will get it going. but this is something -- it is such a horrible thing, and it is really hard. we have to do deportations. now we are doing self deportation. we are coming up with all kinds of ideas. they must have known this is not going to work out well. we want people to come into our country, by the way. we need them badly for the jobs, but they have to come in legally and show they can love our country. thank you. thank you very much. thank you. [captions copyright national

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